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Ken Miles stepping into Dolphin Mk.2, March 1961. Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles (1 November 1918 – 17 August 1966) was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene.
Jerry Cook (born June 20, 1943) is a NASCAR modified championship race car driver. [ 1] He began racing at the age of 13 and won the track championship at Utica-Rome Speedway in 1969.
Funny Car. Funny Car is a type of drag racing vehicle and a specific racing class in organized drag racing. Funny cars are characterized by having tilt-up fiberglass or carbon fiber automotive bodies over a custom-fabricated chassis, giving them an appearance vaguely approximating manufacturers' showroom models.
Holden Apollo (Australia) Opel Vectra (New Zealand) The Holden Camira is a mid-size car that was produced by Holden between 1982 and 1989. It was Holden's version of GM's J-body family of cars—GM's third "global" car platform, and was heavily based on the European J-body car - the Opel Ascona C. The name "Camira" comes from an Aboriginal word ...
Appendix J Touring Cars was an Australian motor racing category for modified, production based sedans. It was the premier form of Touring car racing in Australia from 1960 to 1964. The category was introduced by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport to take effect from January 1960. Prior to the introduction of Appendix J, there had been ...
Modified stock car racing, also known as modified racing and modified, is a type of auto racing that involves purpose-built cars simultaneously racing against each other on oval tracks. First established in the United States after World War II , this type of racing was early-on characterized by its participants' modification of passenger cars ...
Josef Nicolai Newgarden[ 2] (born Joseph Edgar Newgarden, December 22, 1990) [ 3][ 4] is an American racing driver who races the No. 2 Team Penske Dallara / Chevrolet in the IndyCar Series. [ 5] He was the 2011 Indy Lights champion, and 2017 and 2019 IndyCar Series Champion. He won the 2023 and 2024 Indianapolis 500, and the 2024 24 Hours of ...
A Group 3 Jaguar E-type competing in the 1963 Nurburgring 1000. Regulations for Grand Touring Car racing were first defined when the FIA issued "Appendix J" for Touring Cars and GT Cars in 1954. [1] The term Group 3 was in use by 1957 [2] and by 1960 a minimum production of 100 units [3] in 12 consecutive months was required to allow ...